Hundreds Rally Near Site of Deadly Arson
Chanting “Thou shalt not kill,” hundreds rallied near the burned-out shell of the Baltimore house where an arson killed five children and their mother, who had fought to clear drug dealers from her neighborhood. “The time has come for us not to just say those words, but to live them,” said Bishop Felton Edwin May, the head of the Baltimore-Washington conference of the United Methodist Church.
Darrel Brooks, 21, a man police say has a “drug history,” has been charged with setting the fire early Wednesday.
Brooks faces 29 charges, including arson and first-degree murder.
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